Posted by
Zach W on March 15, 2010, at 5:27 am
Back in January, I noted Republican Congressional candidate Dan Sebring, who’s challenging Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore in the fourth Congressional district, didn’t have much in the way of a health care reform plan, other than proposing a three-tiered health care system:
I would like to see a three tiered health care system. One where participants [...]
Posted by
Zach W on March 11, 2010, at 5:44 am
This is the very definition of irony:
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care — admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada’s single-payer system.
“We used to hustle over the border for [...]
Posted by
MadCityMan on March 10, 2010, at 6:32 pm
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has analyzed Paul Ryan (R,WI-o1), much ballyhooed “Roadmap for America’s future” and has found it to be a dead-end for most American’s. The winners are the wealthy (given his donors, it isn’t too surprising)with the report stating: it would result in massive transfer of resources from the broad majority of American’s to the nation’s wealthiest individuals.
Posted by
MadCityMan on March 10, 2010, at 1:57 pm
Alan Grayson, D-FL proposes expansion of Medicare availability, where consumers could buy into the program at cost.
Posted by
Zach W on March 10, 2010, at 6:03 am
Here’s how health care reform will work, and what will happen if there’s no reform, according to an editorial in the New York Times:
HOW REFORM WOULD WORK: Under the new system, all people would be required to have health insurance or pay a penalty. If you are poor or middle class you would also get [...]
Posted by
MadCityMan on March 9, 2010, at 6:10 pm
A tale of two ads – the DNC on insurance company greed and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce front group Employers for a Healthy Economy with their be afraid, be very afraid ad campaign.
Posted by
Zach W on March 9, 2010, at 5:47 am
It’s been nearly a week since Sen. Russ Feingold’s campaign issued a press release asking Republican Senate candidates Terrence Wall and Dave Westlake if they’d fight for big health insurance companies or regular folks all across Wisconsin, and there’s still been no response from either candidate (or their campaigns) to answer the question. It’s [...]
Posted by
Zach W on March 4, 2010, at 5:39 am
U.S. Senators Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl have sent a letter to Wellpoint President and CEO Angela Braly asking her to justify the recent hikes in insurance premiums for over 13,000 Wisconsinites, hikes which will be in the double digits here in Wisconsin. In their letter, Sens. Feingold and Kohl question if the increases [...]
Posted by
Zach W on March 1, 2010, at 5:43 am
Yesterday I touched on some of the steep increases to health insurance premiums here in Wisconsin and across the nation, but being the fan of charts that I am, I put together a chart outlining some of the more dramatic health insurance premiums across the nation.
Proposed/Implemented Health Insurance Premium Increases
State:
Colorado
Indiana
California
Maine
Michigan
Washington
Rate Increase:
19.9%
21%
39%
23%
56%
40%
Health insurance providers have attributed [...]
Posted by
Zach W on February 28, 2010, at 6:10 am
Back in September 2009, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Terrence Wall opined, “We have the best health care system in the world,” in reference to the American health care system, and while the American health care system certainly isn’t terrible, it’s far from perfect. Putting aside the millions of Americans who don’t have health insurance [...]
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